BAKER.] 235 Kee— Kel. 



Keete; inlet, indenting the southwestern shore of Prince of Wales island, Alexander 

 archipelago. Ai)parently a native name, published hy the Coast Survey 

 in 1899. 



Keetoraia, bay; see Whale. 



Kegikioirruk, village; see Kiktaguk. 



Kejachu, island; see Adak. 



Kckoor; rock; see Second Kekur. 



Ki'lrnir, rock; see Third Kekur. 



Keku; group of islets, in the north end of Keku strait, Alexander archipelago. 

 Native name, which has been written Kekou and Kiku. 



Keku; strait, between Kuiu and Kupreanof islands, Alexander archipelago. A 

 native name, which has been variously written Kake, Kiku, etc. 



Kekur. This word, spelled Kekoor, Kekour, Kekur, etc., is frequently found on 

 Russian maps of Alaska and Eastern Siberia. It appears to be some 

 native term adopted into the Russian and to mean any high isolated rock 

 or rocky islet. Apparently it is an exact equivalent of the Spanish word 

 Farallon. In the Journal of the Russian Hydrographic Office (1844, vol. 

 2, pp. 115-129) is a list of words in use by the seafaring folk ( promieshlen- 

 niki) of the Archangel government. In this list occurs these two entries: 

 Gurie; pyramid of rocks. Kekur; same as gurie, but oftener by this 

 word is meant an isolated pillar-like rock. The word is in use in Nova 

 Zembla. Paktusof, in 1833, speaks of Guria or Kekura. Petrof (Ban- 

 croft's History of Alaska, p. 225) says, "This expedition fell in with a 

 large party of savages, who had taken up a position on a Kekour, ' ' and 

 then adds this explanation, " Such places, to which the Russians applied 

 the Kamchatka name of Kekour, were often used by the natives as natural 

 fortifications and places of refuge. War parties or hunting expeditions 

 would leave their women and children upon such cliffs for safe-keeping 

 till their return." In Wrangell's narrative, edited by Sabine, we find 

 (p. 354) Kekury, Kekurnoi, or columns. 



Kekur, cape; see Pillar. 



Kekur; islet, near the entrance to Kalsin bay, Chiniak bay, Kodiak. Called Kekur- 

 noi (pillar) by Russian naval officers in 1808-1810. 



Kekur, rock; see First Kekur. 



Kekur, rock; see Pinnacle. 



Kekumie, cape; see Rocky. 



Kekurnoi; cape, on the northern shore of Shelikof strait, between Katraai and Cold 

 bays. By Tebenkof, 1849, it is called Kekurnoi, from Kekur (pillar), and 

 by mistranslation this appears on current charts as Kahurnoi. Lutke, 

 1835, calls it Nelupaki or Neliupiaki, apparently a native name, while 

 Russian Hydrographic chart 1379 has another native name, Nukakalkak. 



Kell; bay, Affleck canal, Kuiu island, Alexander archipelago. Said to be so calletl 

 by the Indians. Name reported by Helm in 1886. 



Kellek, island; see Summit. 



Kellett, island; seeWrangell. 



KeUogg; point, the northern point of entrance to Young cove, Howkan strait, Cor- 

 dova bay, Alexander archipelago. Named by Sheldon Jackson after Miss 

 Fannie E. Kellogg, a teacher at Sitka in 1878. 



Kellogg; point, the western pomt of entrance to Dunbar inlet, Prince of Wales 

 island, Alexander archipelago. Named by Dall, in 1882, after Miss Fannie 

 E. Kellogg, a teacher at Sitka in 1878. 



Kelly; moimtain, in northwestern Alaska, near headwaters of Pitmegea river. Name 

 published by the Coast Survey in 1890. 



